I'm getting seriously hacked off...

By all of the tourists and day bloody trippers who buy cheap day return tickets and who should, by rights, not even be allowed onto evening rush hour services.

Yet again I'm being forced to stand while a bunch of mad old biddies hog all the spare seats with their bloody carrier bags.

It's not worth the effort to ask 'em to shift, by the time they've sorted out what they don't want to stick up into the luggage rack and what they don't think they'll need in the next 45 minutes, we'll be in bloody Braintree.

For the second time in 2 days...

The journey into Stratford has been delayed by more than half an hour.

Today's delay was caused by signal problems somewhere around Ingatestone.

The 0812 arrived at Braintree 35 minutes late and only managed to make up about 5 minutes on the journey in.

Another Delay Repay claim to make.

Yet again...

The cretins running Stratford station have blocked off the quickest route to platform 10A so some pillock with a pneumatic drill can dick around.

Why haven't these idiots blocked off access to the tunnel leading to the area where the work is being done? Why are there no alternative routes signposted?

The route everyone is being forced to follow now involves climbing 3 flights of stairs to platform 10,  walking along the platform, walking down 3 flights, walking along one of the rat run tunnels and then climbing another 3 flights.

All of this while the train is arriving at platform 10A so there's no respite from having to rush or miss the train.

And bear in mind that Stratford will be the hub for people traveling to next years Olympics.

God help us.

We've finally arrived...

At Stratford, over half an hour late.

So that's another claim for the princely sum of £3.60 compensation I'm able to make.

Pathetic isn't it?

Typically...

NXEA still haven't condescended to pass on any warning of the delay to this train.

I did receive an email earlier warning of delays to the earlier Braintree to Liverpool St service. But of delays to the 0812, deafening silence.

Even the stopping Metro services are outrunning us this morning.

Useless.

And todays excuse...

Is "track problems".

We're currently slowly dragarsing in towards Stratford. We should have arrived by now, but we're not even passed Romford yet and we keep stopping.

Yet again...

The dickheads at Stratford have shut off the usual access route to platform 10A

And yet again the gormless twats couldn't be arsed to tell the poor sods trying to use that route that it's blocked. Not a single indication anywhere.

Instead we're expected to troll around the maze of tunnels and stairways trying to find a useable route.

Hopeless.

After almost 3 months...

of trains departing from platform 10A at Stratford, NXEA STILL haven't bothered to connect up the tannoy system on the platform.

If you're waiting for a train over there your only source of information are the tannoys on platform 10. The closest of these is a good 50 yards away.

Is it truly beyond the wit of these people to get the speakers that are already installed connected?

Apparently it is.

Pathetic.

Does anyone...

...at that festering shower of shit that is NXEA have a bloody clue what they're playing at?

Having arrived on platform 10A at Stratford in plenty of time for the 1809 to Braintree, the useless tossers there decide the train's not going to use that platform, probably because it'll f*ck up the arrival of a more important bloody Southend train, oh no, they have to make everyone  waiting for the Braintree service trek all the f*cking way across to platform 8.

Of course the arseholes couldn't be arsed to hold the train which was pulling in even as we were running around the f*cking place trying to negotiate the mindless maze of tunnels and stairways.

Oh no, the f*cking door beepers were going off well before I managed to get on.

Wankers

They just couldn't resist...

...the temptation could they?

Despite the cable theft occurring well north of Witham, the gormless f*ckwits at NXEA just HAD to start canceling Braintree trains.

As usual the first casualties of absolutely every balls-up on NXEA are the poor bloody sods just trying to get home to Braintree.

The next 2 services, including mine which was due to leave Stratford at 1809 are canceled.

Bastards.

Cable theft screwing services again

NXEA are reporting a cable theft between Witham and Kelvedon.

Naturally they've taken the opportunity to f*ck up the travelling public with alacrity.

Trains being canceled. Connections f*cked up. Delays to services.

We're seeing it all yet again.

Roll on February.

Stupidity personified...

I'm currently on the 0812 train from Braintree to Stratford.

It's a pleasant warm summer morning so as I first sat down I opened a couple of the small windows to let some air in and keep the temperature down.

Of course I didn't reckon with the mind-boggling stupidity of some of my fellow passengers.

One of which has just shut them again because the noise is disturbing the endless drivelling conversation she is having with another gormless female in the seat behind.

Some people are just too thick for words.

More bloody speed restrictions

Yet again Network bloody Rail have stuck another arbitrary speed restriction in along the stretch of line between Stratford and Shenfield.

The 1809 is currently dragarsing along again. The weather is obviously once again the wrong sort.

It's a pleasantly warm sunny day so the antique overhead power lines are f*cked again.

Words fail me.